UNFPA in Yemen
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
How we work
UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people.
Guided by the 1994 Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), UNFPA partners with governments, civil society and other agencies to advance its mission.
The work of UNFPA is based on the premise that all human beings are entitled to equal rights and protections. We focus on women and young people because these are groups whose ability to exercise their right to sexual and reproductive health is often compromised.
UNFPA adopts a human rights-based approach throughout its work. This entails educating individuals and communities about their human rights, so that they can then demand the respect and basic services they are entitled to. This approach also involves empowering governments to fulfil these rights.
UNFPA focuses on women and young people, because these are the groups whose rights often go unfulfilled. Understanding local cultural complexities is crucial to the success of our work because many of the issues UNFPA deals with – including sexual and reproductive health and rights – are sensitive, sometimes taboo, subjects.
UNFPA in Yemen
UNFPA has been working in Yemen since early 1970s. UNFPA’s two-year country programme (2023-2024) for Yemen aim to contribute towards:
- Improving maternal health, emergency obstetric, neonatal care and birth spacing options
- Reducing the incidence and impact of gender-based violence, especially among women and girls affected by the humanitarian crisis;
- Improving the capacities of national statistics offices to generate and disseminate reliable population data; by focusing on interventions that ensure women’s access to an integrated package of reproductive health and gender-based violence services across the humanitarian-development-peace continuum.
UNFPA provides leadership in coordination and service delivery for reproductive health, gender-based violence prevention and response as well as population data. With this leadership UNFPA aspires to reach the most vulnerable and those furthest left behind and help to close the gap in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for Yemen.
